The School is extremely grateful to both Dr. Dzau and Mrs. Cooper-Dzau for endowing this important and impactful lectureship.
We gather on a yearly basis to celebrate the change-makers in global and population health and aim to recognize outstanding leaders, while celebrating the scholarship that underscores the field's commitment to education, research, and service to our local and global communities. The Lectureship focuses on current topics in global and population health and aims to recognize outstanding leaders and change agents while celebrating the scholarship that underscores the field鈥檚 commitment to education, research and service to society.
The Lecture also provides undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, and Faculty members with a unique opportunity to learn and meet with luminaries that define excellence in the many disciplines that contribute to the field of global and population health. The Dzau Lecture will provide a chance for the greater community to hear from leaders in global and population health about new trends, key developments, and innovation within the field.
Watch or rewatch past Dzau Lectures
2025: Mr. Ali Zaidi
2024: Dr. Jane Philpott
2023: Dr. Alika Lafontaine
2022: Dr. Agnes Binagwaho
During 黑料网爆吃瓜's Bicentennial's celebrations the SPGH welcomed Agnes Binagwaho, MD, who travelled to Montreal from Rwanda to deliver the 2022 Dzau lecture, Closing the equity gap in preparation for the next health threat, in person as part of Global Health Week. Dr. Binagwaho spoke about how we can change the way health care is delivered around the world by training the next generation of global health professionals to deliver more equitable, quality health services for all.
Agnes Binagwaho, MD, is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity, a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and Senior Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization. She is a Rwandan pediatrician who has served the health sector in various high-level government positions, including five years as Minister of Health.
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2020-2021:
The Dzau Lecture was on hiatus due to the measures surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019: Dr. Tim Evans
Tim Evans was Senior Director of the Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Global Practice at the World Bank and, starting in September 2019,听the Inaugural Director and Associate Dean of the School of Population and Global Health (SPGH) in the Faculty of Medicine, 黑料网爆吃瓜, and Associate Vice-Principal (Global Policy and Innovation).
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2018: Dr. Paul Farmer
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